Homelessness Movies

Michiko used to work as a live-in part-timer at an izakaya, but suddenly lost her job and her house at the same time due to COVID-19 pandemic. There...

Examines the intergenerational impact of addiction by chronicling the love, labor, loss, and uncertainty of one woman’s struggle to live a life...

'Boykee' is a drug addict from the streets of Rotterdam, who manages to get himself into some serious trouble and he' s looking for a way out. Lea, a...

Two young children living illegally in a model apartment outside Boston are left to fend for themselves when their hardworking mother disappears

This documentary about teenagers living on the streets in Seattle began as a magazine article. The film follows nine teenagers who discuss how they...

In Montreal, front-line workers work hard to provide appropriate care to the most vulnerable citizens in our society.

Two unhoused men turned community leaders— John and LaMonté —organize their neighbors in the face of displacement, addiction, and...

A homeless alcoholic living on Skid Row dons himself a Private Investigator to solve cases for others living on the street.

​​After getting laid off, young single-mom Beth finds herself living in her car and struggles to hide her homelessness from her estranged...

A group of individuals who unexpectedly fall into homelessness. They bond together as an unconventional family, struggling to survive on the streets...

After a drug arrest, a college-bound young man spends a night in jail with a cellmate whose life initially seems far removed from his own.

Rejected by their family, school and society, three teenagers wind up defenseless on the mean streets of Tirana.

A young man goes home after a day of work.

A story about talented homeless and formerly homeless fine arts painters in the worst section of Los Angeles known as Skid Row. People will create...

Each night in Silicon Valley, the Line 22 transforms from a public city bus into an unofficial shelter for the homeless in one of the richest parts...

Jobless inventor Justus begins to help people to become happy together with a homeless girl named Bella.

THE DEPARTMENT is a feature documentary which takes us inside the never-before-seen child protection system at work in NSW. Filmed in an...

A homeless mother of two tries to scrape out a sense of dignity in a world that’s working against her.

The UN estimates street children worldwide at 150 million. In Latin America, they are 40 million. In Brazil, street boys and girls felt so enchanted...

The recession of the 1980s split the country into the haves and have-nots, from family farmers to factory workers and homeless people forced to live...